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Questions on the first paragraph of Virginia Woolf: “Middlebrow”

English Language & Usage Asked on August 15, 2021

As far as I understand, didn’t Virginia Woolf frown upon the reviewer for posting her address on the newspaper? However, the last sentence seems to express that she thought it is necessary to add the writer’s postal address. Could anyone tell me whether she thought it is necessary?

To The Editor of the “New Statesman”

Sir,

Will you allow me to draw your attention to the fact that in a review
of a book by me (October ) your reviewer omitted to use the word
Highbrow? The review, save for that omission, gave me so much pleasure
that I am driven to ask you, at the risk of appearing unduly
egotistical, whether your reviewer, a man of obvious intelligence,
intended to deny my claim to that title? I say “claim,” for surely I
may claim that title when a great critic, who is also a great
novelist, a rare and enviable combination, always calls me a highbrow
when he condescends to notice my work in a great newspaper; and,
further, always finds space to inform not only myself, who know it
already, but the whole British Empire, who hang on his words, that I
live in Bloomsbury? Is your critic unaware of that fact too? Or does
he, for all his intelligence, maintain that it is unnecessary in
reviewing a book to add the postal address of the writer?

Source: https://www.falseart.com/virginia-woolf-middlebrow/?continueFlag=3c84aba42763d929cb1985f89b13faf2

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